Reading & Analyzing A Successful Tufts University Essay!

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Which aspects of the Tufts undergraduate experience prompt your application? In short, ‘Why Tufts?’ (100-150 words)

We read and analyze and review a supplemental essay from Tufts University. This one is a classic Why College essay otherwise known as a Why Us essay, in this case the Why Tufts essay. We review the prompt and the essay and then talk about it. This is some great free college counseling advice for all high school students wishing to get into schools in the Ivy League, Stanford, MIT and many other schools. We want you to have a great college decision reaction!

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[christianavancena]

Thanks! This helped me so much and am submitting my app right now! Although by the time you come up with more of these videos I'll probably have already recieved my college decisions, I would love to see some videos detailing other Essay Promps such as other ivies and top schools.

[codrinradetchi]

I don't think it was a good essay. The only Tufts specific thing was the name of the club. The rest of the essay could have easily been for Princeton, MIT, Caltech or any other school known for its engineering department and undergraduate research. In my opinion you should highlight as many Tufts specific things as possible. You want to talk about research, mention a professor, a lab, a program. Mention a course. Mention something iconic for the school. Columbia has the Core Curriculum and NY. Yale has the college residential system. Cornell has the most beautiful campus in the country. Dartmouth is known for surrounding scenery and nature, skiing and hiking, strong alumni community and for its Greek life. It doesn't matter what you write about, as long as it is something specific about the school. Obviously it needs to be accompanied by some generic "diverse and collaborative community", "academic excellence" and "opportunity to achieve my dreams" type of bullsh*t. But the strong point of the essay must be a few specific things, motivated by this bs.

[codrinradetchi]

he is not showing he will be a leader and innovator on campus. he is just telling. activities, achievements and recommendations are proofs.